SKM Creative Trade Show Presenters partners with you from beginning to end, from the first input session to final message delivery at your trade show or live event. Steve becomes a member of your event team, learning your products and solutions to tell the right story with energy, enthusiasm, credibility, and confidence.

What if Steve isn’t available or the perfect fit for your project? He’ll get you the expert who is, chosen from a select group of industry-leading trade show presenter professionals well known and trusted by SKM Creative.

Take it from our trade show clients

Bill Duncan | SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS

“We’ve gotten extremely positive comments from everyone! It seemed as if you knew our business so well. SKM Creative’s role in developing and delivering our message was crucial, and your professionalism throughout the process was a delight. I wish all our relationships with outside “experts” went so well!”

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VP of Marketing | SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS

“We’ve gotten extremely positive comments from everyone! It seemed as if you knew our business so well. SKM Creative’s role in developing and delivering our message was crucial, and your professionalism throughout the process was a delight. I wish all our relationships with outside “experts” went so well!”

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Sonja Ortmayer | HP

“SKM Creative presentations are always strong, energetic, enthusiastic – and the last is always as strong as the first. Our customers view SKM Creative as members of our company because they’re so comfortable and knowledgeable with our solutions and technologies. I look forward to working with them as much as possible in the future. ”

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Event Manager | HP

“SKM Creative presentations are always strong, energetic, enthusiastic – and the last is always as strong as the first. Our customers view SKM Creative as members of our company because they’re so comfortable and knowledgeable with our solutions and technologies. I look forward to working with them as much as possible in the future. ”

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Greg Shortell | NOKIA

“I truly appreciate the fabulous job you did for our Channel Conference. This year’s event was a huge success and SKM Creative’s talents and winning personalities contributed greatly to that success. Thank you for everything and I look forward to working with SKM again in the future.”

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VP of Global Sales | NOKIA

“I truly appreciate the fabulous job you did for our Channel Conference. This year’s event was a huge success and SKM Creative’s talents and winning personalities contributed greatly to that success. Thank you for everything and I look forward to working with SKM again in the future.”

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Our expert Product Demonstrators show your solutions, explain them with authority and clarity, and increase hands-on interaction with potential customers. We research and learn your products, then actively engage attendees throughout the day to build interest and convert quality leads to your sales team.

SKM CreativeTrade Show Presenters work with the world’s top Booth Ambassadors who deliver huge crowds and increased quality leads. These tireless experts work the aisles around your stand to generate buzz, scan badges, organize guests, and drive attendees to your theater or demo stations. No part-time models, “booth babes,” or agency actors – only dedicated trade show veterans who know how to make our clients shine.

Trade Show Presenter & Booth Ambassador are the one-two combo you need

Expert Brand ambassadors in the Cisco booth at Citrix Synergy

Picture yourself on a trade show floor; it’s loud, confusing, bombastic. Lights buzz, people shout to be heard, your feet ache from miles of trekking across thin-carpeted concrete exhibit halls. Competing messages assault you at every turn and your brain is filled to capacity with statistics and superlatives. You’re done. You’re a mountain, and you won’t be moved.

Then a friendly smile and welcoming voice meet you in the aisle, delivering a succinct, simple, easily digestible invitation to learn just one more important thing. And suddenly you’re moving. Into the next booth, into a presentation theatre, ready for more information and potentials.

The professional Brand Ambassador is a wonder; one of the hardest and arguably most important positions at any live event, this expert communicator has the power to create connections, improve visibility and impact of a brand, and benefit every attendee they seamlessly guide toward your solutions and services.

Great Brand Ambassadors are hard to find. The best can grow your scans by 200-400% and make guests feel important, empowered, and grateful for their time on your stand. The worst can be ineffectual, impolite to potential customers, and undermine your booth and brand. Only the best will do.

Assuring your event is staffed by the most qualified, successful Brand Ambassador is easy once you know what to look for and where to find them. Here are some tips.

1. Demand an experienced, dedicated professional

You want and deserve an ambassador who specializes exclusively in trade shows and corporate events. They should promise loads of experience, proven success, and come personally endorsed by both the clients they serve and the agency who represents them. Ask questions of your support agency; is the ambassador you’re recommending full or part time? Is he or she primarily a model or actor? Have you personally watched them in action for years over multiple shows? Your ambassadors are a first point of contact to attendees and potential clients – they deserve as much analysis as any key vendor.

2. Make sure your agency gives you the best

Many companies require “preferred vendor” status when using an agency for support services; by the time that status is achieved you can be confident the ambassadors your agency provides are of highest quality. Until then, ask how your agency hires and screens ambassadors. Ask what qualifications they demand in order to represent an ambassador and if they’ll personally vouch for your ambassador’s expertise and performance. If you sense any hesitation, move on. Most agencies in America provide mediocre personnel or worse; a little extra vetting time can net big results.

3. You get what you pay for

It’s no secret the vast majority of Brand Ambassadors are primarily crowd gatherers looking to up their game and their income. And that’s fine; crowd gathering is an extremely difficult and skilled job, but most are only moderately effective. They’re typically underpaid as an afterthought position, and too often they underperform for their clients.

A Brand Ambassador loads the booth for sTec

The simple truth is you get what you pay for. Low price typically buys low quality. The best ambassadors are highly specialized experts in their craft and deserve to be compensated accordingly. Fortunately, even those at the top of the market are comparatively inexpensive in relation to your standard personnel budgets but have the ability to generate astonishing returns.

Think before you save a few bucks. Going from top tier to mid-tier shaves all of two hundred dollars per day off your bill, pocket change in terms of overall trade show costs. Spending that extra two hundred per day (600-800 total) to assure you get the best in the field can easily yield a sizable increase in leads and conversions at a live event, making strong Brand Ambassador services a no-brainer investment strategy.

Once on the show floor, if you discover your ambassador is merely decent, or sense that person is primarily a model or actor “slumming it” in trade shows for extra money while awaiting their big break, it’s time to question the agency that submitted their services to you. Any agency willing to offer or book a sub-standard support professional of any kind – crowd gatherer, ambassador, spokesperson – isn’t worth working with; that agent is more interested in a commission than guaranteeing you get top value for your investment.

4. Set your team up for success

Once you have the expert ambassador you deserve, work with them to set and manage realistic goals and targets for what you hope to accomplish during the run of the event. You might expect them to move mountains – and sometimes they can – but expecting a reasonable percentage increase in total event traffic assures your measurements are actually achievable. The best should attract roughy 2.5% to 5% of total attendees at a trade show. If your brand is a platinum level sponsor that number can go up to 10% of an event’s registered visitors, but it’s rare.

Stay honest. If your product serves the mass market and you have something highly applicable and new to offer that everyone at the show can use, you’ll easily pull big numbers and move lots of mountains. If you’re showing the same solutions and services as last year, or if you provide a specialty capability that targets or serves only 10% of all show attendees, even the best ambassador will struggle to achieve huge lead counts. Give your vendor the tools to succeed and they’ll bring the mountain to Mohammed.

SKM Creative is on trade show floors worldwide 30-60 times throughout the year. We’ve served the world’s top brands and multinationals for over 15 years, providing the best trade show and event spokespeople, ambassadors, crowd gatherers, and product demonstrators to savvy marketing managers in the US and around the world. Even if you use another agency’s services, call us anytime with questions or ideas – we’re here to help!